This gave me a terrible idea for a business idea of dubious ethics.

First create a ghost application bot that creates fake resumes which fit the job descriptions. Then once you have calls or contact back wanting to proceed in the process mark off the job as real. Compile a database of all jobs that are verified as actually conducting a hiring process and thus are probably not ghost jobs. Sell subscription access to said database of validated jobs.

Better idea: Charge both recruiters and applicants to contact each other. Recruiters should be charged more because they are generally the spammers. The nuances can be worked out. But people can earn a small amount in the process.

Yes, but it usually isn't "good or bad" in the moral judgement sense. Not to mention the many logical flaws involved with trying to make such prioritization. If I'm searching for say desert eagles refusing to return any gun related content and only giving me birds isn't helping anything or anyone.

Although come to think of it I'm surprised that I haven't heard of any attempts of fundamentalists to make "moral" search engines that do things like exclude evolution.

It went on for far longer than the last decade. The thing is that it takes a long time for a very big company of any sort to die, so it can zombie along for years. Even when private equity notorious is pretty much trying to kill the company.

Ah yes, when you are a minority living your life is just 'an agenda'. It is so much better that kids feel alone and isolated than knowing facts that there are other people like them. Fuck that and fuck you.

Goddamn, dystopia as a word has reached a new level of dilution.

Ah "taking responsibility for content", that classic weasel phrase for "Do what I specifically want or else." While disregarding the sheer difficulty of moderation at scale. They want a return to a "broadcast" information model and just refuse to admit it.

Have you seen how long criminal trials go? Watching interrogations would be a drop in the bucket compared in comparison.

I recall hearing about newborn birdsongs being learned "in utero" (not sure if quite the right term but lets go with that). In that case the channel for transmission was sound. It was apparently used as a shibboleth against brood parasite egg replacement. If the baby didn't sing the song that was being sung to it then the baby got abandoned by presumably disappointed parents. I suppose it could also be a 'health test' of sorts since sufficiently deformed or disabled offspring would also fail.

Parental teaching and learning is a spectrum and not a binary. We've found with relocating deer (to similar but not identical environments) doing worse until learning occurs over a few generations and they catch up. Animals may not be as intelligent as us but their ability to learn and adapt should not be underestimated.

“In ovo” would be the egg-laying animal equivalent to “In utero”

Japan is also a convenient 'bridge' of what is commonly categorized as Western culture and Eastern culture. This is somewhat by their own design, and has a long history given both their own Westernization efforts from their infamous imperial days and post occupation. That gives them a unique niche of exotic and yet somewhat comfortably familiar so that it more often feels 'weird' but not necessarily 'alienating'.

China is the new kid on the block in comparison, even if China was a robust democracy they would be at a disadvantage in cultural propagation from this. They try to promote some of their own cultural products but a dictatorship self-sabotages anything too good or popular having a deliberate chilling effect.

Korea as a third culture makes a decent comparative reference. They are 'newer' culturally than Japan (in terms of widespread western cultural exposure) but South Korean music, film, and TV are growing and more evident among younger generations. There are some western Manhwa fans but it is still more niche.

How are we to learn how biology works better without modifying DNA directly? We learn through experimentation, not sitting upon a pedestal and pontificating for decades.

> Humans don't live for centuries! We can't wait for progress.